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WASHING MACHINE.

(Application filed Jan. 7. 1902,)

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J. WOERNDL. WASHING MACHINE.

(Application filed Jan. 7, 1902.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

JOSEPH lVOERNDL, OF FRANCES, XVASHINGTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of.' Letters Patent No. 703,360, dated June24, 1902.

Application led January 7, 1902. Serial No. 88,780. (No model.)

To all whom, it 71mg/ concern.:

My invention relates to washing-machines,'

more particularly of the type used upon the top of a Washtub and whichare operated without direct submersion in the water.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view showing my device as applied to a tub. Fig. 2 isa fragmentary section of the same on the line2 2 of Fig. 1-

looking in direction of the arrows. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail uponthe line 3 3 of Fig. 2,

showing the oscillating hand-frame and the rigid frame; and Figjc is asomewhat similar fragmentary section taken on the linell: -1A

of Fig. 2 looking in direction of the arrows.

Two parallel base-bars l'are rigidly secured beneath a board 2, the saidboard being provided with drainage-apertures 3 and with transverse ribs4c, secured rigidly upon its top surface. These transverse ribs areprovided with V-shaped drain-holes 5 for the purpose of conducting thewater which may drain from the clothing down to the drainageapertures 3,whence it ows into the tub. The under side of the board is provided witha groove 6, into which is loosely fitted an adjustingrod 7, providedwith a slot 8. A screw 9 is rigidly secured to the board and projectsdownward through the slot 8, so as to be engaged by the thumb-screw 10.By means of this thu :nb-screw the adj listing-rod may be locked in anydesired position within the limits allowed by the length of the slot S.A hook 11 can `thus be adjusted within reasonable limits relatively tothe general position of the board. The tub is shown at l2, and its upperedge is normally engaged by the hook 11, thus holding the entire devicetub, as shown in Fig. 2.

iirmlyin position, as indicated more particularly in Fig. 2.

Standards 18 are rigidly secured to the base-barsl and project above thetop of the Oscillating arms 14 are secured to a cross-bar 15, which ispivoted to the standards 13. The lower ends of theseoscillating arms arepivoted at 1G to' .and placed in position, as indicated in Fig. 2.

The hand-frame 17 being now actuated by vmeans of the handle 18, theclothing is rolled forward and backward, the internal surfaces rubbingagainst each other with a gentle friction, thus loosening the dirt andcausing the saine to mingle with the water. With a little skill theclothing can thus be effeotually washed, and the pressure applied by thehandframe may be varied by rolling the ball of clothinginto differentpositions. `The washing process thus takes place above the water in thetub, the clothes operated upon being Wet, but not submerged. of thewater Will constantly escape while the clothes are bein g manipulated,and this water flows through the V-shaped drain-holes 5 and thedrain-apertures 3 into the tub, as above described.

The leverage exerted by the hand-frame upon the clothing can be variedat will by manipulating the clothing to the front or the back of thetub, as may be desired. Itis necessary that all of the ribs should berigid :in order to prevent any sliding or rolling motion of the ribsrelatively to the clothes.

is that the clothes are rolled bodily and are washed by the friction ofthe inner surfaces of the cloth each upon the other and by the frictionof the ribs upon the outer surface of Of course more or less IOO thecloth. It will be observed, therefore, that by means of the adjustablemember 7, provided With the Vslot 8 and the' hook ll, to-v gether Withthe clamping-bolt 9 and thumbnut lO, the board can be adjusted to t anytub.

Having thus described my invention, I

.claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A Washing-machine,comprising a scrubboard adapted to engage the edge of a tub, andprovided upon its under side with a longitudinal groove, an oscillatingrubber adjacent to Said scrub-board, alongitudinal board partiallyburied Within said groove, said board being provided with a longitudinalslot dis-v posed parallel to the general direction of said groove, andalso provided with a longitudinal fiat platey extending throughout theentire length of said board, and provided at its eX tremitywith a hookfor engaging the edge of a tub, said hook being bent upward so that thetop edge of thevscrub-board is substantially level with the top edge ofthe tub, and a thumb-screw engaging said slot and also engaging ascrub-board for the purpose of clamping said longitudinal board Withinsaid groove, the arrangement being such that said longitudinal board isheld in proper alinement by said groove and said thumb-screw.

'In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this-specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH W'OERNDL.

Witnesses:

LoUIs CHRISTEN, GREGoR VETTER.

